Building Dialogue Systems for Tutorial Applications

It was a pleasure to participate in the symposium entitled Building Dialogue Systems for Tutorial Applications along with 44 researchers from a variety of relevant application areas. The American Association for Artificial Intelligence presented the 2000 Fall Symposium Series was held on Friday through Sunday, 3 to 5 November, at the Sea Crest Oceanfront Conference Center. "Is'hintify' an acceptable morphological construction in standard English?" Nine working systems were showcased in two lively demo sessions. Knowing how to do things is an important category of knowledge underlying many kinds of intelligent behavior in artificial agents, such as critiquing, advice giving, tutoring, collaboration, and delegation.